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Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lost City Radio
Daniel Alarcon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Johann Hari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Lost & Found
Nicole Williams

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
Robert Kolker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Lost Hills
Lee Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Lost Horizon
James Hilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Mitchell Zuckoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Lost In The Barrens
Farley Mowat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

Lost in the City
Edward P. Jones

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

Lost in the Cosmos
Walker Percy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Lost in the Forest
Sue Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Lost in the Funhouse
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Lost in the Pacific 1942
Tod Olson

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Lost in the Sun
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Lost in the War
Nancy Antle

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Lost In Time
A. G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lost in Translation
Nicole Mones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Lost In Yonkers
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Lost Lake
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lost Light
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
Richard E. Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Lost Roses: A Novel
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lost Stars
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Lo Terciario / The Tertiary
Raquel Salas Rivera

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

Lothaire
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Louisiana's Way Home
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and The Start of a New Nation
David A. Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Love and Other Consolation Prizes
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs
Emerson Eggerichs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Love and Ruin
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Love and War
John Jakes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Love: A Novel
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Love Anthony
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Love at First Spite
Anna E. Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love, Aubrey
Suzanne LaFleur

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Love Bites
Lynsay Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Love Comes Softly
Janette Oke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
David Rakoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Bob Goff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Love for Love
William Congreve

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1695

Love From A to Z
S. K. Ali

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Love & Gelato
Jenna Evans Welch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Love Hacked
Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Love, Hate and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Love Her or Lose Her
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Love in Excess
Eliza Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1719

Love in the Afternoon
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Love in the Time of Serial Killers
Alicia Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Rob Sheffield

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Love Is a Revolution
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Loveless
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Love Lettering
Kate Clayborn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Love Letters to the Dead
Ava Dellaira

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Love, Life, and the List
Kasie West

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Lovelight Farms
B. K. Borison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lovely, Dark, and Deep
Amy McNamara

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Lovely Trigger
R.K. Lilley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lovely War
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Love Me Never
Sara Wolf

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Love of Country: A Journey through the Hebrides
Madeleine Bunting

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Love & Olives
Jenna Evans Welch

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Love Only Once
Johanna Lindsey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love on the Dotted Line
David E. Talbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Love, Pamela
Pamela Anderson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Lover at Last
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Lover Avenged
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Lover Awakened
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Loverboy
Victoria Redel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Lover Enshrined
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Lover Eternal
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lover Mine
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Love, Rosie
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lover Reborn
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Lover Revealed
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lovers Leap
J.L. Merrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Lover Unbound
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lover Unleashed
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Loves Music, Loves to Dance
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Love, Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Love Story
Erich Segal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Love That Dog
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Love the One You're With
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Love Unrehearsed
Tina Reber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Love Unwritten
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Love! Valour! Compassion!
Terrence McNally

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Love Walked In
Marisa de los Santos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Love Warrior
Glennon Doyle (Melton)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Rob Bell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Love You Forever
Robert Munsch

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1986

Love You More
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
Arthur C. Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019